I have two different versions of the same poem by Laure A. Brook that I found with Kevin Hodgson’s help. He had suggested an A-B comparison between an algorithmically created poem on Lumen 5 and a human, a latter-day John Henry. That would be me. So I did it.
I will let you decide which is which and make comments in the etherpad I embed below.
Poem:
Spring ripens
in my imagination,
across open fields,
and in my hands darkened
by days working words and loam,
the roots of seedlings left
dangling.
Laure A. Brook
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Great exercise, friend. Glad I suggested it for I wondered. Actually, Lumen did not do a bad job on its own. Still, yours is better, if I guessed right. If not, then reverse those sentences into an infinite loop. I hope Laure likes it. She seems to have disappeared from Twitter now but a message earlier says she is in YAP.
Kevin